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07-09-2008, 09:37 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| Books Hmmmm...unless I'm just blind and senile in my old age and completely missed it, or we don't have a section dedicated to books (WW2-related, of course). Anyhoo....that said, I've been kinda cruising around Amazon.com looking at books related to Hitler's secret weapons, and some of the more exotic research he had going at the time. I've run into a TON of stuff that pretty much sounds like UFO conspiracy theory and psychic super-warrior tales, but I have no idea what's fact and what's speculative fiction. Anybody here read any good FACTUAL books on the subject?
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07-09-2008, 11:00 AM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| I have a few odd-ball books, like Time/Life "Mysteries of the World" that mention goofy Hitler ideas but nothing definative on the subject. About a book section, its usually here in different threads.
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07-09-2008, 03:50 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Central Texas
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| In the "corrections and suggestions" forum, there is a thread encouraging a book forum. There are lots of suggestions but so far no book forum. I'm sure in due time it'll be here though- lot's of good info in books out there! |
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07-09-2008, 07:52 PM
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| Possibly a mod can sticky a thread? Anyhoo....any books/magazines/websites with actual historical references to some of Hitler's more esoteric projects would be nice. There's too many out there with alien-conspiracy-theory stuff makes for entertaining fictional reading, but I'd like to know what they were actually working on....and actually created. I know Hitler's scientists were the first to link cancer with smoking, and the SS had a scientist on payroll that had invented the electron microscope. Not war-material, necessarily, but frikkin cool nonetheless, and proves that not every German in the late 30's to early 40's was a die-hard Nazi intent on destroying half the world and dissecting the other half. Still....a sticky-thread would be nice, where we could review and recommend books we've read....**ahem-hint-hint**
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07-09-2008, 08:30 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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07-09-2008, 11:45 PM
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| Yep. That's the stuff. A quick Google search turned up this, too: NOVA | Transcripts | Hitler's Sunken Secret | PBS
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11-15-2009, 09:23 AM
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| Anyone with £125.00 burning a hole in their pocket, take a look  THE FOCKE-WULF FW 190 DORA VOLUME 2 - SIGNED LIMITED ED on eBay (end time 15-Nov-09 14:38:27 GMT) Anyone any idea how accurate this book (and Vol I) would be as a source for the Dora? |
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11-15-2009, 03:16 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| I have a paperback that I just happened to notice as I passed by the bookstand at the market, years ago. You gotta love finds like that, completely out of the blue and unexpected! It's titled: "Secret Weapons of World War II" by William Yenne (Penguin Books 2003, ISBN 0-425-18992-9) and covers a broad range of weapons of both the Axis and Allies. While it's only 290 pages, it touches on an amazing range of "wonder weapons" with a brief overview at the head of of each chapter, and great details of the weapons in each. There aren't any photographs, but the author has gone to alot of effort to weed out fiction from fact, and is a great read! I'll post the table of contents: Chapter 1. The Nuclear Genie Chapter 2. Conventional Bombs Chapter 3. The "Ultimate" Weapon Chapter 4. Secret Codes Chapter 5. Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles Chapter 6. Tactical Artillery Missiles Chapter 7. Cruise Missiles Chapter 8. Aircraft as Cruise Missiles Chapter 9. Air-to-Surface Guided Missiles Chapter 10. Surface-to-Air Missiles Chapter 11. Air-to-Air Guided Missiles Chapter 12. Mega Artillery Chapter 13. Strange Artillery Chapter 14. Super Tanks Chapter 15. Super-Submarines Chapter 16. Jet Fighters Chapter 17. Luftwaffe Rocket-Propelled Aircraft Chapter 18. Unorthodox and Unrecoverable Interceptor Aircraft Chapter 19. Luftwaffe Very Long-Range Bombers Chapter 20. Jet Bombers Chapter 21. Stealthy Flying Wings Chapter 22. Strange Aircraft Configurations Chapter 23. Strange Vertical Takeoff Aircraft Chapter 24. Poison Gas Chapter 25. Biological Warfare Chapter 26. Rumors of Very Strange Weapons Chapter 27. Offensive Spacecraft
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11-15-2009, 03:35 PM
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These and the Japo books are all you need to know pretty much everything about the Dora | |
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11-15-2009, 04:03 PM
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they would want to be In fact, for that price I'd want a Fw190D thrown in | |
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